What to know about the 'buy, refinance, repeat' strategy helping real estate investors scale without tons of cash

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Childhood friends Connor Swofford and Pieter Louw
Childhood friends Connor Swofford and Pieter Louw started investing in real estate together in 2024.

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Mom-and-pop landlords' bet on rising rents is coming back to bite them

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Real estate investors who expanded to 24 units in a year say the BRRRR method can help investors scale fast — if they avoid 2 costly mistakes

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Pieter Louw and Connor Swofford are childhood friends who started buying real estate in Buffalo in 2024.

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Influencers make being a landlord with lots of rental properties seem easy. But a real-estate investor with 482 units warns newbies to not scale up too quickly.

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Mark Ainley, whose company owns and manages nearly 500 apartments in buildings like these in the Chicago area, has words of warning for aspiring landlords.

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Real-estate investors seized upon a tried-and-true strategy to fix up homes and make money. Then the market turned.

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Real-estate investors who embrace the "BRRRR" method buy a home, rehab it, rent it out, refinance it to withdraw cash, and repeat to buy their next property.

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